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Hauppauge Media MVP Personal Multimedia Player

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

Brand Hauppauge
Connectivity technology USB
Controller type Remote Control
Form factor TV Box
Item weight 0.98 Kilograms
Compatible devices Television
Video Codec MPEG-4
UPC 785428010045
Global Trade Identification Number 00785428010045

About this item

  • Watch PC Based Music,Videos and Pictures on your TV set, play slide shows with music too
  • Connects to Ethernet networks with standard RJ45 connectors
  • Plays MP3 music and music playlists
  • Plays MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 videos
  • Plays JPEG and GIF digital pictures
  • Composite and S-Video outputs for the best video quality on TV sets, plus stereo audio output to TV sets or home theater systems
  • Watch digital camera pictures (JPEG or GIF) on your TV set. Play slide shows with music, too
  • Remote control for easy access to your PC media from your TV set. MediaMVPs remote control allows you to navigate through your PCs disk drives, and displays media names, directories and other information on the TV set. MediaMVPs remote also can control the audio volume and mute of videos and music being played.
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MediaMVP is a Linux based digital media receiver. MediaMVP includes a hardware MPEG decoder. Music and digital pictures are software decoded by MediaMVP's processor. It receives the digital media from the PC via the Ethernet LAN, decodes the media and outputs video through composite and S-Video connections, and audio through stereo audio output connectors. MediaMVP provides an on-TV-screen display of media directory listings. It receives commands from the supplied remote control, and sends these commands to the PC server. The TV menus are created on the PC server, sent over the LAN and displayed by MediaMVPs browser.

MediaMVP connects to your TV set, and allows you to watch and listen to PC based media via an Ethernet network.

MediaMVP is really simple to install: Install the MediaMVP server application on your PC, connect MediaMVP to your PC through any 10/100 RJ-45 Ethernet port on routers, hubs or switches. Plug in MediaMVP and you'll have instant access to digital music, videos and pictures stored on your PC!

Navigate through your PC media on your TV set, selecting individual music titles to listen to or digital pictures to watch. You can simultaneously play a digital picture slideshow while listening to a complete music program. Or play a music playlist (MusicMatch, Winamp and Windows Media playlists supported).

Create MPEG videos on your PC with any Hauppauge WinTV, and play them on your TV set. For the best system performance, use a WinTV-PVR with hardware MPEG recorders built-in. You can also use our SoftPVR" to record videos with any WinTV or WinTV-usb! MediaMVP also supports most MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standard videos.

Connect MediaMVP to your home theater system, for the ultimate home media network. Just connect the S-Video and stereo audio outputs to your home theater switch, and you'll be able to watch your digital videos and pictures on your TV set while listening to the digital audio on your home theater speakers!

MediaMVP is great when traveling with laptop computers. It's small enough to carry on vacations and business trips, so you can watch videos, digital pictures and listen to music on your hotel room TV set. All you need is an Ethernet cross over cable (not supplied) to directly connect MediaMVP with your laptop.

Box Contains

  • MediaMVP
  • Stand
  • Wall mounted power supply
  • Remote control with batteries
  • MediaMVP Installation CD-ROM
  • MediaMVP QuickInstall Guide
  • 1.5 meter SCART cable
  • 1.5 meter Ethernet cable

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4.4 out of 5 stars
7 global ratings

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2004
Configuration of the box is very easy. Being a bloke I didn't look at the manual and just installed the software on my mini-ITX PC. Zone Alarm made a few requests to allow the server access to the network and then it is simply a matter of telling the software about your music, video and picture directories. This is harder than it should be because the system searches for content for you and builds a list of directories with suitable content. You can't add the root content folder directly and it won't appear in the list if it doesn't have content in at the top level. Easily fixed though by temporarily moving a file or two.
Then you plug in the box and switch it on. It was up and running within 10 seconds. The supplied leads are not particularly useful as the SCART lead has another SCART plug and two phono audio sockets on the end. Fortunately I had a suitable lead that converted the SCART socket to S-video and stereo audio phono plugs, to plug straight into my Home Cinema Amplifier.
The user interface is pretty basic and designed to be simply to operate. It is a bit slow to respond to the IR remote but seems to store key presses so if you know where you want to go, you can press the keys quickly and it will catch up. The configuration menu allows you to change various settings such as composite or S-video output, 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio, etc. You can also change the media directories from the unit should you want to. This strikes me as a bit of a security issue, especially if you network is not firewalled.
One flaw I found was that the 16:9 video output doesn't transmit a 'wide' signal so my auto-switching TV will not switch to 16:9 mode automatically. The unit also has a configurable flicker reduction. Lowering this value from the default setting caused noticable flicker on screen. Not really a problem but the unit doesn't seem to use the whole screen estate. When viewing pictures, there is a noticable black border around the image.
Music sound quality is very good. Navigation is not brillaint and you can't queue things up or generate and edit playlists. These are best done on a PC with WMP or a similar tool. You can play a whole directory though. Once music has started, you can go and view pictures too.
The picture browser is based upon a simple display of folders and thumbnails. You can jump pages or simply scroll down with multiple key presses. The slideshow is the best way to view multiple images in a folder. On entering a folder with lots of images, the unit freezes for about 4-5 seconds.
I've not managed to get any video to work as my camera and other devices don't produce it in MPEG formats.
The box is physically very small. It is a shame that it includes another plug-based PSU, which is always on and drawing power. It comes with a small stand that allows it to sit vertically in you cabinet, which is a good space saving feature.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2005
An excellent product. I'm the proud owner of three of them (I've got a big house !). I have my computer setup to record TV(Using Hauppauge Nova-T PC Card) and then view the recordings using the MVP. Not only can you view MPEG but also DivX. Quality is outstanding as its digital format. You can also use is as a MP3 & Picture Library. It even sees shared drives across a network. A must have for anyone putting togther a next generation home entertainment system.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2007
4 stars rather than 5 simply because to get the best out of this product you need to use the shareware GB-PVR software which can be quite demanding and time consuming to set up even when you are an IT techie like me. MediaMVP combined with GB-PVR media server software is the cheapest way to serve video, music, picture library and Live TV (Live TV only if using GB-PVR) to multiple TV sets around the house. I use Devolo DLAN 200 AV Homeplug's which allows me to use my home mains electric sockets as network points giving a usable 130Mbps, enough for 3 or 4 simultaneous HDTV digital streams plus a bit to spare for internet access. Only tried two simultaneous standard definition TV streams so far though.
Even if you do use GB-PVR you still need to install the MediaMVP software to access and change each MediaMVP box's configuration for things like TV set aspect ratio, by default it is 4:3, many will want to change this to 16:9 wide-screen. A set up like this is about as powerful and flexible as you can get for serving digital media around the home, you just need to know / learn a bit about the world of codecs, computer networking etc. to get there. With a TV card in the media server computer I have access to recorded, downloaded and transferred from camcorder videos with this set up. With GB-PVR software you can also playback media content on other computers on your home network without a MediaMVP box.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2007
I use a Linux based satellite recorder to watch TV. With the Hauppauge MVP we can distribute the signal around the house using Ethernet cables. The quality of the software matches something like a Sky+ Box and the HD is much bigger.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2004
This is the cheapest available MP3 network player that you can get.
It is some 50 pounds cheaper than the Linksys and in my opinion is a better unit.
The feel is of quality and it is dead easy to install (it uses DHCP)
The picture quality is very good but the sound quality is even better.
Network streaming for under £100 is just superb and this unit is strongly recommended.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2006
the hauppauge MVP is a great product but make sure you use the freeware software gbpvr to drive it, as it is much superior to the bundled stuff
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